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The Creature of Water Walking on Land

The Creature of Water Walking on Land

In this short piece Daisy Wang explores posthuman feminist relations in becoming mallard.
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Daisy Wang
Original Copies: Deconstructing the Authentic

Original Copies: Deconstructing the Authentic

In this short piece Ziwei Cheng explores authenticity and originality in Chinese urban development.
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Ziwei Cheng
The Matter of Architecture in the Age of Social Media

The Matter of Architecture in the Age of Social Media

In this short video Xing (Dominic) Chen discusses impact of mobile electronic devices on public space.
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Xing (Dominic) Chen
Weaving My Room

Weaving My Room

In this short piece Xing Song explores spaces of public intimacy in the city.
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Xing Song
Can big data help make demolition more democratic?

Can big data help make demolition more democratic?

In this short piece Yikun Fang explores the perception of demolition in the city, and questions the speed of urban change. Yikun is a…
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Yikun Fang
Radical Kinship

Radical Kinship

Radical Kinship was a four-part lecture series convened by the MRes Architecture Programme at the RCA between 2019–2020.
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Adam Kaasa
The Grammar of Being Together

The Grammar of Being Together

“Grammar is politics by other means.” MRes Architecture students at the RCA consider the question ‘What is We?’ through short films.
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Adam Kaasa
Marking Feeling, Feeling Planning

Marking Feeling, Feeling Planning

A workshop and colloquium for the London Festival of Architecture 2019
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MRes Architecture RCA
Contour 9 Biennale Mechelen

Contour 9 Biennale Mechelen

Marking Feeling was a series of walks developed and conducted throughout the group project of the RCA’s MRes Architecture cohort 2018/19.
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MRes Architecture RCA
Internationalising the Professional Standards of the Chartered British Architect

Internationalising the Professional Standards of the Chartered Brit...

Towards Socially Responsible Development
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Paul Priest
Shanghai Vertical

Shanghai Vertical

Skyscrapers and the “whole” city
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Wanying Li
The Architecture of Resistance: from erasure to resilience

The Architecture of Resistance: from erasure to resilience

Is democracy in planning not possible? Is shaping the city simply unfair? Can architecture be a political tool for resistance?
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Nuria Benítez Gómez
Who owns the city?

Who owns the city?

Is this how we want the future of our cities to be decided? A bunch of tech giants with a higher market value than Denmark?
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Moritz Dittrich
Future of retail: efficiency or entertainment?

Future of retail: efficiency or entertainment?

In this short essay Ching-Hung Lin asks what the future of luxury retail looks like.
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Lin Ching Hung
ROOM

ROOM

An architecture of perception, not predetermination
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Mariano Cuofano
Activism and Outrage: A celebration of post war social housing

Activism and Outrage: A celebration of post war social housing

The increasing rejection of post-war social housing as a political project, is embodied in the critique of its high-rise typology…
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Wanying Li
Exploring New V/A/M/X Realities with IIS Tokyo Design Lab

Exploring New V/A/M/X Realities with IIS Tokyo Design Lab

Across RCA is a week-long cross-college project at the Royal College of Art. RCA students can choose to apply to join over twenty…
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Lin Ching Hung
(Sharing) Ordinary Pleasures

(Sharing) Ordinary Pleasures

Can we vicariously experience a nuanced ordinary pleasure when shared through writing? “Go outside and look at the moon”, someone wrote.
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Nuria Benítez Gómez
REEI / Robotic Emotions Experience Interface

REEI / Robotic Emotions Experience Interface

In January of 2018, Annette Zimmermann proclaimed, that by 2022 personal devices would know more about ones emotional state than…
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Moritz Dittrich
SLANT or, How to start a research project

SLANT or, How to start a research project

Five books explore the start of any research project where lines get drawn and slants emerge.
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Mariano Cuofano
What is ‘we’?

What is ‘we’?

If ‘grammar is politics by other means’ then pronouns become the starting point for a consideration of architecture’s collective politics.
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Adam Kaasa
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